When you are conducting a job search, hope is not a strategy. Action -- ideally, consistent action implemented in a systematic way -- is the only strategy that will help you move closer to your goal for landing a new job. These 5 job search strategies that you can take action on today, will help propel your job search forward and help you to land a new job more quickly. For more tips to help with your job search, resume writing, personal branding and career marketing, visit www.distinctiveweb.com or follow us at: Twitter: http://twitter.com/distinctivedocs Facebook: http://facebook.com/DistinctiveDocuments Google+: http://plus.google.com/+Distinctivewebofficial LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/michelledumas

1. 5 Time-Tested
Job Search
Strategies You
Can Use NOW

2. People are currently filling the jobs
you may have had in mind. They
were smart to plan their job
search last summer and got serious
about it in the fall.

3. Tip #1
Do Not Wait
Make your job search your idea.
Do not wait to be downsized or
laid off. Do not wait to be
passed over for the next
promotion. Nothing feels better
than leaving a job on your own
terms!

4. Plan Ahead Tip #2
Unless the job comes looking for
you, you need time to clean up and
organize your finances, your social
media history, your references,
and work history.

5. Tip #3
Focus On Target Jobs
Determine what job title,
workplace, and income you
want to chase. Without a job
search target, you will not know
what to do next or how to
prioritize your time.

6. Put Yourself At The
Center
Tip #4
Imagine yourself at the bulls-eye of a target; then run
two exercises:
Label each concentric circle a
distance of 20 miles and identify
the employers in those ranges.
Label each concentric circle for a
community you belong to and
regularly network in those circles

7. Tip #5
Learn To Network
Let people know what you are looking for
and how you are right for it. If you cannot
sell those you know, you will never sell
an interviewer.
Networking is not a whimpering plea for
help. Approach your contacts with
confidence and with focus.

8. You cannot go
forward without
cleaning up your
past on social
media where
everything you
have posted has
a life of its own.

9. At the same time, prepare a current professional résumé
(or better yet, work with a professional résumé writer).

10. Finally, it never
hurts to submit your
resume to
headhunters who work
to match open
positions with
professionals such as
you. They need and
value an inventory of
qualified candidates.

11. Michelle Dumas runs of one of the longest-standing and most
respected professional résumé writing firms on the internet,
Distinctive Career Services, LLC (dba Distinctive Documents).
Since 1996, Michelle has empowered thousands of professionals
with résumés that get results and win jobs fast. Get insider
résumé writing tips that you won't find anywhere else at her
website. Go now to www.distinctiveweb.com
The Internet’s Résumé & Career Marketing
Specialists…Since 1996
www.distinctiveweb.com
resumes@distinctiveweb.com
(800) 644-9694
Copyright © 2014, Distinctive Career Services, LLC